Final Report - CRÊPE (Co-operative Research on Environmental Problems in Europe)

Abstract

This is the final report of the CREPE project aimed to empower and resource Civil society organisations (CSOs) to participate in cooperative research on agri-environmental issues.

According to the report, CREPE fulfilled its aims to gain a wider impact through research and dissemination activities, closely linked with CSOs. Through cooperation between the academic coordinator and CSO partners, each built its own capacities for joint research, with mutual learning from the process. The report also outlines more specific aims from the technical annex and describes the dissemination activities through the different work packages.

In all ways, the project opened up policy frameworks to greater challenge and to alternative agendas and its overall results helped to stimulate debate on future roles of European agriculture for a 'Knowledge-based bio-economy' (KBBE), while also drawing CSOs more closely into such issues.